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Quotes about dress
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. (West Mae)
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. (West Mae)
Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck. (West Mae)
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. (West Mae)
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it. (West Mae)
I dress for women and I undress for men. (West Mae)
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. (West Mae)
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. (West Mae)
Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. (West Mae)
Good clothes open all doors. (West Mae)
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. (West Mae)
A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms. (West Mae)
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them. (West Mae)
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known. (West Mae)
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. (West Mae)
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one. (West Mae)
Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you. (West Mae)
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid. (West Mae)
So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on. (West Mae)
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. (West Mae)
An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion -- macho, sotto voce. (West Mae)
How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best. (West Mae)
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women. (West Mae)
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. (West Mae)
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes. (West Mae)
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